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iPhone Restoration : Restoring Home Screen Layout (Pre 3.0)

After having gone through 3 iPhones and countless restores of different iPhones and iPod touches I had to get to the bottom of how to restore my layout of my apps on my home screens. The Cause When you restore your iPhone / iPod touch to it’s factory defaults the device is not connected to […]

Disabling Mail.app’s To Do Mailboxes and Quasi-Debugging Mailbox Creation

Leopard’s Mail.app introduced some nice speed improvements over Tiger’s version but introduced one of the most annoying features (IMNSHO) in Leopard. System Wide “To Dos” in a garish Marker Felt font intent on polluting my IMAP mailboxes with Apple Mail To Do or ToDos.mbox seemingly placed randomly (they aren’t but when your Prefixes differ from […]

Alert: Flash Player 10.0.12.36 Installer Opens Up Root Home Folder

I updated the current installation of Adobe Flash Player at work today over ARD and had several people ask me odd questions about why there was a Finder window with the word root for a title when they came in to login this morning. Needless to say that raised warning bells all over the place […]

iPhone Cryptic Error : Invalid Recipient

While I really enjoy my iPhone’s ease of use it does spit some really cryptic errors sometimes. Namely one I’ve kept running into after changing over my domains to the new Shared Accelerators from Joyent which changed my SMTP information. For some reason my new SMTP information just wouldn’t sync to my iPhone correctly - […]

Showing Network Volumes in the Sidebar

At work I have a user that really, really was having a hard time with Network Shares being moved to under Network in Leopard instead of showing up with the rest of the Volumes as they used to in Tiger. After a bit of digging around I found the following information but failed to figure […]

LaunchBar Snippets

One of the very first programs I install on any machine I will be spending a good deal of time on is LaunchBar. I am a self confessed LaunchBar whore because of the amount of time it saves me from going down to the Dock or having to find the Applications folder to launch Applications […]

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